The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Ley Hill School

URN 110243 · Primary · Community school · Buckinghamshire

The Green, Chesham, HP5 1YF

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 38 families named Ley Hill School as their first preference, and the school made 29 offers.

That is 1.31 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 94% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 94% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.25 in 2021–2022 and 1.27 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 38 105 29 1.31
2024 37 93 30 1.23
2023 21 72 23 0.91
2022 44 108 30 1.47
2021 31 95 30 1.03
2020 39 121 30 1.30
2019 45 120 30 1.50
2018 56 144 30 1.87
2017 40 120 30 1.33
2016 39 120 30 1.30
2015 38 113 30 1.27
2014 47 108 29 1.62

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 26 January 2022

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 66.0% 17.0% 110.0 106.0
2023/24 50.0% 13.0% 107.0 102.0
2022/23 70.0% 13.0% 111.0 106.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 9.7 8.7 1.0 0.0 10.3%
2023/24 9.4 6.4 0.0 3.0 31.9%
2022/23 9.4 8.4 0.0 1.0 10.6%
2021/22 9.7 6.6 1.0 2.1 32.0%
2020/21 9.7 9.3 0.0 0.4 4.1%
2019/20 9.8 7.5 0.0 2.3 23.5%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Buckinghamshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Ley Hill School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 55 live postcodes across 7.584 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Ley Hill School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

2 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Buckinghamshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Ley Hill School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 55 live postcodes across 7.584 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Ley Hill School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

2 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Ley Hill School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Ley Hill School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.